Refiguring Prose Style: Possibilities For Writing Pedagogy Book

CONTENTS


Introduction
T. R. Johnson and Tom Pace

PART I: What Happened: The Rise and Fall of Stylistics in Composition

Introduction
Tom Pace

1. Style and the Renaissance of Composition Studies
Tom Pace

2. Where Is Style Going? Where Has It Been?
Elizabeth Weiser

3. Contextual Stylistics: Breaking Down the Binaries in Sentence-Level Pedagogy
Rebecca Moore Howard

4. Style Redux
Kathryn Flannery


PART II: Belles Lettres and Composition

Introduction
T. R. Johnson

5. The Uses of Literature
Tina Kelleher

6. Persuasion, More Than Argument: Moving Toward a Literary Sensitivity in the Classroom
Allison Alsup

7. An Arts-Centric Composition Classroom
Gabriel Gomez

8. Playing with Echo: Strategies for Teaching Repetition in the Writing Classroom
Melissa A. Goldthwaite

9. "Weird Al" Style Method: Playful Invention as Serious Pedagogy
Keith Rhodes

10. When Their Voice Is Their Problem: Using Imitation to Teach the Classroom Dialect
J. Scott Farrin


PART III: Teaching Prose Style

Introduction
Tom Pace

11. Style: The New Grammar in Composition Studies?
Nicole Amare

12. Balancing Thought and Expression: A Short Course in Style
Lisa Baird

13. Rethinking Stylistic Analysis in the Writing Class
William J. Carpenter

14. Re-Placing the Sentence: Approaching Style Through Genre
Peter Clements

15. Tutoring Taboo: A Reconsideration of Style in the Writing Center
Jesse Kavadlo


PART IV: New Definitions of Style

Introduction
T. R. Johnson

16. Rhetor-Fitting: Defining Ethics through Style
Dion C. Cautrell

17. Style as a System: Toward a Cybernetic Model of Composition Style
Drew Loewe

18. Teaching the Tropics of Inquiry in the Composition Classroom
M. Todd Harper

19. Writing with the Ear
T. R. Johnson



Notes

References

Contributors

Index